technology
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
45 wisdom & wit from Aldous Huxley
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
6 more wisdom & wit from Karl Popper
Men have become the tools of their tools.
117 other sayings from Henry David Thoreau
It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.
19 quotes from Marshall McLuhan
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
19 wisdom & wit from Marshall McLuhan
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
2 other wisdom & wit from E. F. Schumacher
The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.
2 quotes from Pierre Schaeffer
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
26 other thoughts from Theodor Adorno
If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.
2 views from Arthur Holly Compton
One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.
3 more quotes from Samuel Wilson
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
100 other wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde
It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
3 quotes from Henry A. Wallace
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
9 more sayings from Carl Sagan
We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.
2 quotes from Monica Edwards
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
9 more sayings from Carl Sagan
Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.
2 quotes from Bob Barr
A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.
5 views from Max Lerner
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
16 other sayings from Alan Watts
We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.
2 quotes from Timothy Murphy
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
19 quotes from Alfred North Whitehead
My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.
3 wisdom & wit from An Wang
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
31 thoughts from Gertrude Stein
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
5 other wisdom & wit from Omar N. Bradley
And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.
2 quotes from Toni Cade Bambara
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
105 other quotes from Albert Einstein
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
7 more quotes from B. F. Skinner
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
7 quotes from Alan Perlis
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
7 other wisdom & wit from Alan Perlis
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
13 quotes from Fred Allen
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
7 more thoughts from Max Frisch
The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.
22 quotes from James Dyson
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
3 thoughts from Richard P. Feynman
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
7 quotes from Max Frisch
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
11 wisdom & wit from John Stuart Mill
Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
22 wisdom & wit from James Dyson
Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.
2 more quotes from John McKinley
So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.
22 thoughts from James Dyson
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
17 sayings from Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
26 more wisdom & wit from Frank Lloyd Wright
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard